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During last year's public discussions the main participants were Martin Kilson, professor of Government, and Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department With the Review Committee's final report almost finished, another scholar joined the debate when Azinna Nwafor, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, released a section of a memorandum he had submitted to the Review Committee. In an interview last week. Nwafor offered additional suggestions for reforms in the Department's administration and structure...
...issue of joint departmental majors, between Afro-American Studies and other established disciplines. Nwafor feels that it is beneficial to draw on the resources of other departments...
...memorandum. Nwafor writes, "There surely should be no reasons why the Departments of Government History, Social Relations etc, should not be able to draw fully from the resources of our own department at the same time as we seek to extract the wealth of their resources for the benefit of our faculty and students One danger in fact, has been the underutilization by the rest of the University of the considerable abilities that have sometimes existed within the Department...
...Nwafor says that one does not have to have been a communist to write critically and, of all things cites Sartre. In the early 1950's, Camus broke with Sartre because Sartre did not want to print the truth about the Russian concentration camps in Temps Moderned because of the cold war. To shield a lie in order to fight another lie leads to moral bankruptcy...
...have been there ten days, Mr. Nwafor. When will come the Twelfth Night? Peter Jago